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Does the share of religious ingroup members affect how important religion is to adolescents? Applying Optimal Distinctiveness Theory to four European countries
Leszczensky, Lars
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Flache, Andreas
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Sauter, Lisa
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DOI:
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1620419
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URL:
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/136918...
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Weitere URL:
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333797286...
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Dokumenttyp:
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Zeitschriftenartikel
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Erscheinungsjahr:
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2020
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Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe:
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies : JEMS
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Band/Volume:
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46
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Heft/Issue:
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17
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Seitenbereich:
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3703-3721
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Ort der Veröffentlichung:
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Abingdon
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Verlag:
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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ISSN:
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1369-183X , 1469-9451
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Sprache der Veröffentlichung:
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Englisch
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Einrichtung:
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Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > MZES - Arbeitsbereich A
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Fachgebiet:
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300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
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Abstract:
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European youth attend classrooms that are religiously diverse, with the importance of religion differing between ethno-religious groups. While religion no longer matters much to many native-origin Christian youth, it is important to many of their immigrant-origin Christian and, especially, Muslim peers. Considering religion as a source of adolescents’ social identity, we examine how religious classroom composition relates to the importance adolescents attach to religion. Optimal Distinctiveness Theory suggests a curvilinear relation, because a group has to be large enough to satisfy the need of belonging but small enough to satisfy the need for differentiation. Using large-scale survey data for 15-year old adolescents from four European countries, we find that this inverted U-shaped relation holds for immigrant-origin Muslim but not for native- and immigrant-origin Christian youth. Instead, for Christian youth religion was more important in classrooms with higher shares of Muslim classmates, thus lending credence to arguments derived from threat theory.
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